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Behaviour Pattern
Also known as: Behavior Pattern
Plain English
How users typically behave.
Definition
A glossaryBehaviourBehaviour refers to how users interact with a system, including actions, patterns, and responses.Open glossary term glossaryPatternA pattern is a reusable solution to a design problem that recurs across products and contexts. It captures an approach already shown to work, so a team solves the problem once rather than every time it appears.Open glossary term is a repeated way in which users interact with a product or glossarySystemA system is a collection of interconnected components that work together to achieve a specific function or outcome.Open glossary term.
In practice
Used to identify trends and inform design decisions.
In context
The valuable ones are the unintended ones: users consistently using a field for something it was not designed to hold, because nothing else fits their need.
The reality
glossaryPatternA pattern is a reusable solution to a design problem that recurs across products and contexts. It captures an approach already shown to work, so a team solves the problem once rather than every time it appears.Open glossary term can change over time, so they need continuous validation.
Compared with
Behaviour Pattern vs Design Pattern
A glossaryBehaviourBehaviour refers to how users interact with a system, including actions, patterns, and responses.Open glossary term glossaryPatternA pattern is a reusable solution to a design problem that recurs across products and contexts. It captures an approach already shown to work, so a team solves the problem once rather than every time it appears.Open glossary term is something users do repeatedly, observed. A glossaryDesign PatternA design pattern is a standardised, documented approach to a recurring interface or interaction problem. It gives teams a shared answer to reach for, and gives users behaviour that matches what they have learned elsewhere.Open glossary term is a solution designers apply, chosen. Good design patterns are usually a response to an observed behaviour pattern.
FAQ
Common questions
A few practical answers to the questions that usually come up around this term.
What is a behaviour pattern?
A repeated glossaryUser BehaviourUser behaviour refers to how users interact with a product, including actions, patterns, and decision-making processes.Open glossary term.
Why is it important?
It helps predict user actions.
How is it identified?
Through glossaryDataData is raw, uninterpreted information collected and stored so it can be analysed, processed, or used to inform decisions. On its own it carries no meaning; context and interpretation are what make it useful.Open glossary term and glossaryObservationObservation is a research method where user behaviour is watched and analysed without interference.Open glossary term.
What is a risk?
Assuming glossaryPatternA pattern is a reusable solution to a design problem that recurs across products and contexts. It captures an approach already shown to work, so a team solves the problem once rather than every time it appears.Open glossary term never change.
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